custom list of authors

Thanks Michael for the response. I hadn’t seen that particular plugin.

I looked it and a few others. But as Robert Tsai points out in the details for his plugin WP Authors, doing anything thing like this “will require either hacking the WP core or directly embedding SQL queries into the plugin. Both strategies subject the plugin to breakage with each WordPress release.”

I might do it anyhow. But it’d be nice if authors and their related details could be accessed like posts.

Thanks again for the link.

Thanks Shane, but those tags only work when displaying a single author. They cannot be used to list authors.

I’m betting my best solution is to create a Category called Authors, create a post for each author, and then loop those posts with author information included.

thanks talgalili, that link was very helpful. I was able to build and customize a page that lists my authors. Although drawing from the database instead of using WP tags might break when upgrading, it seems like a better way to go than using a plugin that might not have any support in a few months. It also uses gravatar.com, which is an easy way to manage uniform user thumbnails.

There is a line in the code that you can use to choose a paritcular role:
if($curauth->user_level > 0 || $curauth->user_login == 'admin') :

You could set if($curauth->user_level = 7) : to show Editors only. I’m not sure why he also includes admin, since they are level 10, definitely greater than 0.

If you use the plugin called role manager, you can change these roles and levels.

thanks again…